Show Stay Routes Washington 12In the star route trust th s morning exAtturney General MacVeijgh was placed upon the stand and testified to a conversation with Bee dell in June 1881 Wilson obiected to be recital of the conversation He claimed that the evidence could not be received Ili against the other defendants besides the date of the conversation would exclude it Morrick said with the view to saving time he would consent that evidence at this point be admitted ony as against Heredell The court decided de-cided to admit the evidence It held that if the nets of Reredell were soimpli cated with the others as not to be distinguishable distin-guishable from them and if the acts would entail a mention of the names of jthers witness was at liberty to use them but if any part cf the evidence could be separated so as to be a recital of Rare dells acts without bringing him into association as-sociation with the other defendants the rule would confine it to testimony in that way Witness related the etory of what is known as Eeredells confession already published using Baredells language lan-guage as near as possible aHo told of the formation of a conspiracy of the methods of underbidding of securing an increase in-crease he described the process of affidavit affi-davit fixing and of getting up petitions the methods of bookkeeping were detailed de-tailed showing how Brady was known in the ledger under a fictitious name Then came a recital of the circumstances arising from the congressional investigation and of how Brady had reduced the pay of certain routes on that occasion and afterwards restored it to the original figures Wilson and Davidge renewed the ob jccuqns to the admission ot evidence I relating to the other defendants and the court finally decided not to admit Beredell statement as to what share of the profits Brady was to receive Witness Wit-ness continued but so many technical objections were interposed by tbe defense that it was with much difficulty that he managed tell connecting story fig said Beredell had books and papers in i Dorseys handwriting that would corroborate cor-roborate statements and he proposed going to New York to obtain them The crossexamination was brief aDd exPostmaster General James was called + |